Amazon.com video review:
While investigating the mysterious circumstances of a
beautiful student's demise, a maverick skydiving instructor finds
himself entangled in a murderous conspiracy involving Soviet spies and
a lost shipment of gold. Logical it ain't, but this entertainingly
daft thriller does offer some good-natured satiric riffs on standard
action star conventions. Charlie Sheen (throughout most of the film,
this not-especially-heroic hero displays the approximate intelligence
of a bag of doorknobs) stars along with Nastassja Kinski in a welcome
return after a long absence from the screen. Good fun for adrenaline
junkies, with a boffo climax involving a midair escape attempt from a
free-falling convertible. Writer David Twohy went on to direct Sheen
in the considerably more accomplished The
Arrival. --Andrew Wright
